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thickening agent
noun
Any substance used to increase viscosity, especially of a food product
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The main ingredient is maltodextrin, the thickening agent mentioned earlier.
With the dispersion of thickening agent, viscosity rapidly increases.
Carboxymethyl cellulose ether, polyacrylamide and polymer KYPQ were chosen as three kinds of thickening agent.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 Effect of thickening agent concentration on viscosity.
This paper presents a novel clean hydraulic fracturing fluid using a star-dendritic polymer as thickening agent.
Given the results obtained, FucoPol is proposed as thickening agent for applications in which stability of the apparent viscosity under pH and ionic strength variations is required.
Polyethylene oxide 600,000 and 8,000,000 g/mole were used as thickening agent of drug layer and the expandable hydrogel of push layer, respectively.
Adding xanthan gum as thickening agent apparently led to higher OBZ permeability, while presence of DEET reduced OBZ permeability.
Adding thickening agent xanthan gum was able to increase viscosity of aqueous phase when its concentration reached beyond 0.2%, which led to decrease in droplet diameter.
Make sure it is quite a thick consistency otherwise it won't work, If it is too thin add some thickening agent, flour or more oats.
Table 2 Results of thickening agent chosen Thickening agent Concentration/% Viscosity/mPa s No 0 30 Carboxymethyl cellulose ether 0.5 35 Carboxymethyl cellulose ether 1 38 Polyacrylamide 0.5 40 Polyacrylamide 1 42 Polymer KYPQ 0.5 610 Polymer KYPQ 1 3230.
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